Sentence examples for monstrous actions from inspiring English sources

He campaigned for Abraham Lincoln and put his own fame to work on behalf of the Union in the Civil War and on behalf of the Thirteenth Amendment — not that such belated actions exonerate him from the monstrous actions at the base of his career.

If we continue to focus solely on Harvey's monstrous actions, and not hold everyone to a standard of decency, there is a risk of downplaying the prevalence of this behavior in our society.

I am not frightened by this monstrous action, nor am I afraid of this man.

Zoey is also adamant that, despite his monstrous final actions, Kurtis was a good father: the children loved him.

He immediately confessed to police and called his actions "monstrous".

But her actions also make her "monstrous" in the world's eyes, and Herod finally orders her execution.

If you depict actions once thought to be monstrous, and you do so in a manner that renders them thinkable and even justified, you are going a long way to endorse what you have depicted.

We meet in San Francisco to talk about his role in Del Toro's new action movie Pacific Rim, in which monstrous Godzilla-sized creatures emerge from a rent in the ocean floor and wreak havoc in the world's cities.

But when his best friend Hector is arrested, Standish decides to take action against the oppressive power of the "monstrous Motherland" - an alternate version of 1950s England - where he lives.

And reassuring as it might be to think that the actions of the sufferers of antisocial personality are monstrous and unnatural, peculiar to psychopaths, Leo is a German Jew and knows they are widely shared.

By their actions, they erased for ever from the political record the monstrous prejudices of male ministers.